St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-25

lively gaudy. 1t is doubtful if the Congo
exhibition described so feelingly by DIR.
Eaton in any way approached the sights
seen by the Hellers in the court of Socra-
beya.
In the dressing of children many
mothers cut loose from all rules and
precedentS, and it must be confessed
that the results often attest the good
taste of the amateur designers. The
three little bellies portrayed require no
explanation. Any reasonably ingenious
woman can learn from these models
how to produce several captivating suits.
In makeup dresses for autumn a
great many combinations of velvets and
woOlenS are shown. Among the most
striking features of these are combina-
tiOns of MORE and velvet trimmings:
also
COMBINATIONS
of bottle-green and moose, and of brown
and coaching tan. In plaids of large
size, both in wool and in pure mohair
effects, trimmed with heavy cord and
paSSementerie, some very handsome
stripes in high priced goods are also
being looked upon quite favorably, al
though anything in this line that has in
the slightest degree tendency to loud
ness is being tabOOed. In tartan plaids
in large designs some very
handsome garments are shown,
particularly in blue and green.
In laces, black fiouncings will be quite
popular. Black lace dresses will also
be quite fashionable, composed of Span
ish guipure and chantilly, with narrow
lace to match. In the way of evening
wear, some exquisite effects are shown
in polka-dOts in all colors, with the lead
ing shades in cream, heliotrope. white
and blue rose, Nile green and new
shade called nicotine. The same shades
are also offered in point d'esprit nets.
In cOttOnS, Fedora f1OuncingS, laceS and
evening dresses for fall wear. These
are also brought out in pinks, blues and
heliotrOpeS. Included in the laces for
trimmings is velvet guipure, which is
among the newest things out for the
autumn season. Medici. Florentine and
TOrchon laces are anticipated to have
good run, and will be largely used for
underwear. Beaded goods, it is also
supposed, will be freely used for both
panels and fronts. The new silk nets
in small checks and stripes and de-
tached figures are very beautiful, and
will also likely prove very fashionable
lOT. oN6HluS wear. buU DldCK lace seems
to be still in the ascendant.
THE TERRIBLE DISASTER
at Exeter, Eng, has set agoing for the
fires in theaterS. Plans of exit, iron
curtains, patent hose, hand grenades
and every appliance invented to fight
fire and provide escape are as nothing
in case Of an alarm compared to the
means in everybody's poSSeSsion-calm-
ness and GOODNESS.
Any theater crowded to the doors can
be safely emptied, however meager the
exit, if only an audience will pass rap
idly out in order. 1t is the hideous, in
sane rush of those in the front that has
made the hOlocausts at all theater fires.
1t seems impossible, when you look
around at gallant men and amiable
women, sitting placidly at play, that
in moment, on the utterance of one
word, they can be turned into ''dumb,
driven CATTLE" senseless, suicidal idiots.
But it is so. Any night the auditorium
of fashionable theater may echo to
some unfortunate note of alarm. In an
instant the gray-haired banker, whose
dignity gave tone to his whole section,
is walking up the backs of women and
over the heads of children. The prim
miss. in whose mouth ice cream would
refuse to melt, is a vociferous, clamor-
ing, screaming menagerie. All the men
are brutal and all the women hysterical.
Ma matter where the danger threatens;
no matter how good the means of
egress, the silly crowd rush for the
place by which they entered, and cut off
their own chances by their selfishness.
At the Park theater one night (the
theater that happily was destroyed by
fire about three hours before the time
when it would have been packed by
New YOrk's best people to witness Mrs.
Langtry's debut. some dude, entering
up the unsafe and tortuous stairway,
threw his cigarette through the iron
grating of the steps. Some accumulated
rubbish
BEGAN TO SMOLDER,
and volume of smoke poured into the
auditorium. About half the audience
sitting there knew that the stage had
an enormous. square opening direct
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